It’s Pastry Week in the tent, and time for the bakers to take on choux buns, a sticky, tricky technical – and a Showstopper that just might have them eating humble pieThis reminds me of the chaos during Lockdown 2.0 when the internet was vibrating with…
The Great British Bake Off 2021: episode three – live
The bakers will knead to try their best to triumph in bread week. But who will be in the upper crust of the tent – and who will be toast?My arms are naans and my head’s a chapati, for I am the lord of the loaf said he.”I did snigger at this, I have to …
The Great British Bake Off 2021 review – joyous TV that shows no signs of staleness
Presenters Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas are purring and the new contestants are defying gravity. Yes, the tonic that is Bake Off returns for a 12th seriesThe year may come when the return of The Great British Bake Off (Channel 4) is not a tonic, a comf…
The Great British Bake Off 2021: episode one – live
We’re back in the tent for more cake-based mayhem! But who will rise to the occasion – and who will bottom out? 9.07pm BST Ah, Jairzeno is going to try to fix the problem with a Bake Off classic – putting it in the fridge and ignoring it. 9.07pm BST I …
Caked crusaders: how The Great British Bake Off took over the world
It seems everyone wants a slice of Channel 4’s action, whether homemade or imported. But what exactly is the attraction?Last week a visitor to the Great British Bake Off set was on the phone to her mother in South Africa. “She was having her hair done …
From Italy to an Oxford library: a new home for Antonio Carluccio’s secrets
Vast collection of notes and recipes by the chef who taught Britain to love Italian food goes on display at BrookesThere was a time when buying “fresh pasta” simply meant picking up a pack of dry spaghetti rather than a tin from the shelf.Just a few de…
Fred Sirieix: ‘I was training to be a chef, but I thought it would kill my soul’
The First Dates star and maître d’ on what his parents taught him about service, the value of hospitality and his pride in his Olympian daughterI was born in food. My dad used to say: “We don’t have much money and we don’t have fancy cars, but we alway…